: a visorless usually woolen cap with a tight headband and a soft full flat top
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Buster Keaton plays a gruff steamboat captain who is astonished when his son returns from college as a slim, mild-mannered sensitive type with a beret, a mustache, and a ukulele.
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Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
Beyoncé had aligned herself with the Black Lives Matter movement and performed at the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show surrounded by Black dancers in black leather and black berets, reminiscent of the Black Panthers.
—Maria Sherman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
Rhoda was the sass to Mary's spunk, the head scarf to Mary's beret.
—Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
Streisand topped the look with a black beret with matching sparkle stitching and slipped on black leather gloves.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
Images of armed Black Panther Party members in leather jackets and berets outside the Capitol swept the nation and brought the group more fame, funding and notoriety.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
Dunaway wore a sparkly white beret with a matching long, fringed coat and V-neck minidress; if the effect was more 1920s than 1930s, nobody noticed.
—Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
Petey wore Luna's Brownies beret in some of the photos from the fun outing, selling Girl Scout Cookies with her troop in Beverly Hills.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
First, Lopez got up bright and early to visit the Today Show, wearing her caramel blonde hair in big, loose curls (styled by Jesus Guerrero) underneath a cute plaid beret.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Feb. 2024
Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
Beyoncé had aligned herself with the Black Lives Matter movement and performed at the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show surrounded by Black dancers in black leather and black berets, reminiscent of the Black Panthers.
—Maria Sherman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
Rhoda was the sass to Mary's spunk, the head scarf to Mary's beret.
—Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
Streisand topped the look with a black beret with matching sparkle stitching and slipped on black leather gloves.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
Images of armed Black Panther Party members in leather jackets and berets outside the Capitol swept the nation and brought the group more fame, funding and notoriety.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
Dunaway wore a sparkly white beret with a matching long, fringed coat and V-neck minidress; if the effect was more 1920s than 1930s, nobody noticed.
—Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
Petey wore Luna's Brownies beret in some of the photos from the fun outing, selling Girl Scout Cookies with her troop in Beverly Hills.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
First, Lopez got up bright and early to visit the Today Show, wearing her caramel blonde hair in big, loose curls (styled by Jesus Guerrero) underneath a cute plaid beret.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Feb. 2024
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be·ret
bə-ˈrā 
: a soft flat wool cap without a visor
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